Merry-go-round.



PATENTED MAY 12, 1903.

P. FRIEDMAN. MERRY-GO-ROUND.

APPLICATION FILED DBO. 12, 1902.

N0 MODEL.

Wf/Wfiiff 225mm I 773 6% No. 727,778.. I Patented May 12, 1903. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PAUL FRIEDMAN, OF CURTICE, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO LENA ABERL, OF OREGON TOWNSHIP, OHIO.

MERRY-QQO-ROU'ND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 727,778, dated May 12, 1903.

Application filed December 12,1902. Serial No. 134,884.- (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: 'tion by means of nuts in contact with the Beit known that I, PAUL FRIEDMAN;f Ourlower face of said member. There are also tice, county of Ottawa,and State of Ohio, have formed upon the member 3 a plurality of upinvented certain new-and useful Improvewardly-extending radial ribs 8, arranged 5 ments in Merry-Go-Rounds; and I do hereby. about the periphery of said member and declare that the following isa full, clear, and adapted to maintain the arms 6 in position exact description of the invention, which will between them. The inner ends of the arms enable others skilled in the art to which it '6 are formed with an upward bond 9 to hold appertains to make and use the same, refer- .the same from sliding outward by centrifugal to ence being had to the accompanying drawaction when the device is in operation. One ings, and to the figures of reference marked of the spring-arms 6 is bent, as shown in Fig. thereon, which form a part of this specifica- 1, being formed with a right-angled bend 10' tion. and at its lower end with a return-bend 11,

My invention has reference to a merry-goand 12 is a frame at the outer end of said round of simple and novel construction which arm, in which is rotatably mounted a pedalmay be readily set up in any convenientplace, wheel 13. The frame 12 is provided with a either indoors or out of doors, and as readily saddle and handle-bar, as shown. The other taken apart for the purpose of storing away. arms 6 extend radially outward and are pm- The device is especially adapted'for the envided at their ends with seats. By the ar- 20 tertainment and exercise of small children, rangement shown one seat only may be proand is arranged with attachable arm's, each vided or any number of additional seats, the carrying a seat to accommodate a varying device as illustrated being, however, limited number. 7 to seven seats. To detach the arms on which In carrying out my invention I employ certhe seats are secured, the outer ends thereof '25 tain novel features of construction and the are simply raised to disengage the curved arrangement of the parts hereinafter shown, ends 9 from the loops 7. Atl4 I have shown described, and claimed.' sections or segments of a circular runway or In the drawings,Figure 1 is an elevation track, on which the pedal-wheel 13 is adapted of my invention, and Fig. 2 is a plan view to-travel. This runway is, however, not an 30 showing the arrangement of the detachable essential requirement of my invention and arms with reference to the rotatable head. may be dispensed with, since the device when Referring to the, parts, 1 is a ball-bearing in use out of doors may be operated upon any or roller-bearing head, the same comprising suitable level surface. The arms 6 being rea stationary disk member 2 and a'rotatablesilient, the seats Willspringup and down when 5 disk member 3, between which balls or rollthe same are occupied, and contact of the ers are arranged in suitable raceways to per-- pedal-wheel with the runway isinsured, The mit the easy rotation of the member 3. The novel. formation of the arm supporting the member 2 is provided with a socket 4. for atpedal-wheel permits operation of the pedaltachment to a vertical support 5. 7 wheel without interference. 4o Detachably secured to the rotatable mem- The utility of my invention as an exerciso 1 her 3 are a plurality of radially-extending ing device for children is apparent.

arms 6, formed out of flattened bands of -Having described my invention, what I spring-steel. Arranged annularly about the claim, and desireto secure by Letters Patent center of the rotatablemember 3 are a pluralof the United States, is

45 ity of inverted-U-shaped loops 7, adapted to In a merry-go-round, a rotatable head com- 5 receive the ends of the arms 6. The loops 7 are prising a stationary disk member secured at, preferably of wrought-iron and maybe cast the upper end of. a support, and a rotatable into the body of the member 3, or the same member mounted so as to revolve upon said may be made to extend through vertical perstationary member, the annularly-arranged 5o forations in the member -3 and held in posiloops 7and the ribs 8 upon the rotatable mem- 10o her, and radially-extending resilient arms In testimony that I claim the foregoing as having their inner ends upturned to enter my own I affix my signature in presence of and engage the loops 7, and to rest in position two witnesses.

between the ribs 8, one of said arms having PAUL FRIEDMAN. the bends 10 and 11 and a pedal-wheel mount- Witnesses:

ed at its outer end, the other of said arms CARL H. KELLER,

having seats at their free ends, as set forth. CHAS. C. DEFENBAUGH. 

